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What The Last 5 Years Taught Me About Investing

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I didn’t know it back then, but 2013 was a crucial year in my life. At that time, I had been the happy owner of The Dividend Guy blog for the prior 3 years (I bought it in 2010). While I was building my online business, I was also managing a portfolio worth over $100M for my wealthy clients. I remember that back then, many of my clients were nervous about the stock market. The 2008 crash was very fresh in their memories and we were already talking about Greece’s debt problem and a potential Euro …

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Video of the Week: DSR is Turning 5!

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Again, this week's video is not a regular stock pick and I've got a pretty good reason for it! My baby, Dividend Stocks Rock, will turn five in a couple days! This video explains why I created this website and how I think it helps investors finding rock solid dividend growth stocks. It is also a big thank you to those who have been following me all these years, either here or on DSR! There will be more to come, I promise. ;) Video If you enjoy the videos format and want more of them, …

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Top 5%+ Juicy Canadian Dividend Stocks

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Yesterday, I’ve made my list of my favorite 5%+ yielder on the U.S. market.  Finding solid companies paying high yields is a very difficult task. Many investors think they can simply pull out a filter including a 5 year history and some more metrics and they can build their portfolio by picking any stocks in this basket. This sounds a lot like the perfect recipe to suffer from dividend cuts in a few years from now! Since I started Dividend Stocks Rock 5 years ago, I haven’t suffered a single …

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My Favorite 5 Stocks Paying a Juicy Yield Over 5%

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Each year, they would receive juicy dividends, see their payments increasing and their portfolio growing in value. Wow! This really looks like buying a seafront house in Hawaii for $200K, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, however, many 5% yielders end-up cutting their dividend. A 5% yield is only good if it keeps getting paid Over the past few weeks, investors got hit by dividend cuts coming from well-known businesses. As I’ve highlighted last week in this article, large caps, dividend achievers and …

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Video of the Week: Stock Cards Tutorial

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This week's video is not a regular stock pick. The DSR Stock Cards are one of our members' favorite tool at my membership's website: Dividend Stocks Rock. This video should help you out in understanding all the strategy behind and why they have been built that way. I also thought it could be useful for you as it can also help you building your own investment strategy and analysis process. Video If you enjoy the videos format and want more of them, subscribe to my YouTube …

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What GE, Owens & Minor and Budweiser have in common?

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All three are well-known giants in their industry. All three were offering a relatively high yield. All three were praised by dividend investors. All three failed their shareholders. All three were never considered for my dividend growth portfolio. We are right in the middle of the earnings season and fall have brought us some horror stories right around Halloween. While over 75% of the S&P 500 companies have beat EPS and over 60% did the same thing for revenue expectations, …

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